Tag: Teacher Tip

What do you and I mean by a Nudge? Besides knowing it to be something that goads a laggard forward, did you ever think it could assume the role of a methodological approach to get learners to respond? Well, not Read more

It was the year 1920. Bluma Zeigarnik, a Lithuanian scholar in Gestalt psychology sat in a restaurant watching waiters. Zeigarnik noticed that the waiters seemed to remember complex orders that guided them to deliver the right combination of food to Read more

Thinking aloud is a time tested instructional strategy that helps students learn how to monitor their own thinking as they read an assigned passage. They are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while Read more

The following techniques activate different parts of the brain while learning high frequency or sight words. These techniques use many repetitions of the word, namely, seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing. The physical movements help to retain the student’s attention Read more

Your maxim should be ‘I do, we do, you do’. It is always a good idea to model for students what they are expected to do or produce, especially for new skills or activities. Showing students what you expect is infinitely Read more

Learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community, and teachers can help students learn this skill. Here are some tips: Use an object, such as a talking stick as a signal Read more

Summarizing is putting in your own words a shortened version of the written or spoken material, stating the main points and leaving out everything that is not essential. Summarizing is more than retelling – it means analyzing information, distinguishing important Read more

Use a pre-listening activity to prepare students for what they’re about to hear and are more likely to understand. Aim to get students to reflect on what they already know about the subject of the listening track by explaining a Read more